#10 Melodies

series: Love Incorruptible

title: #10 Melodies

teacher: Jacob Bender

date: July 2, 2017

scriptures: Ephesians 5:15-21, Proverbs 4:7, 1 Corinthians 12:8, Luke 12, Romans 8:14, Romans 8:22, Genesis 3:16, Philippians 2:12-13

Melodies produce hope. They are connectors. You hear them, and they draw you into a hope that you didn't even know existed. 

but it is hard to sing when the days are slipping away from you… It is hard to sing when you don’t have anything to sing about. 

and this is the last thing I will say about this message... then you just need to watch it.

It was a long, challenging, exciting week... and this concept carried me. 

#9 Imitators of God

series: Love Incorruptible

title: #9 Imitators of God

date: June 25, 2017

teacher: Jacob Bender

scriptures: Ephesians 5:1-14, Genesis 6:5, Genesis 1-3, Genesis 4:6-7, 

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One thing Drew always says, and he says it about the most simple things, (it's hilarious) is he says: “This changes everything.” He said it on Thursday, I told him at Kids Club “we have a slip and slide today” and he said: “This changes everything.” 

That is exactly the way that we should look at the gospel. This truly is the one thing, that changes everything. 

and the thing that it should produce in you, probably more than anything else: is Thanksgiving. It is the word “eucharisteō” (you-har-estay-o) - bundled into this Greek word are the Greek words charis and chara which means “grace” and “joy” - when you understand how every finite detail of your life all the way down to your salvation is grace, it produces unspeakable joy, which equates to thankfulness. 

 and when that Thanksgiving is genuine,  the behavior side of things begins to happen automatically. 

Not because you aren’t trying to do the right thing… part of growing up in Christ means learning how to live your life with INTENTION… but the difference between the old and the new self is: the old self WANTS to give way to the flesh… the new self WANTS to resist it. 

#8 The New Self

series: Love Incorruptible

title: The New Self

date: June 11, 2017

teacher: Jacob Bender

scriptures: Ephesians 4:17-32, Matthew 7:12, Ecclesiastes 7:2, 2 Corinthians 5:14, 

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This section begins by working on the issue of ME. The issue of YOU. 

Paul tells us to put OFF the old self… put away everything that used to be us… the former life… the corruption… the greed that drives most of our lives. Put it all away. 

That used to be your life… That is not your life anymore. 

You have learned Christ… Christ has done something NEW in you. 

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#7 The Church (part 2)

series: Love Incorruptible

title: The Church (part two)

date: June 4, 2017

teacher: Jacob Bender

scriptures: Ephesians 4:1-16, 1 Corinthians 12:27, Psalm 68:18, Luke 9, Colossians 1:18

#6 The Plan, The Purpose, and the Prayer

series: Love Incorruptible

title: The Plan, the Purpose, and the Prayer

teacher: Austin Young

date: May 28, 2017

#5 The Church (part one)

series: Love Incorruptible

title: The Church (Part One)
teacher: Jacob Bender

date: May 21, 2017

scriptures: Ephesians 2:11-22, Mark 11:17, John 13:35, 

#4 Grace, Faith, and Poems

series: Love Incorruptible

title: Grace, Faith, and Poems

teacher: Jacob Bender

date: May 14, 2017 (Mother’s Day)

scriptures: Ephesians 2:1-10, Exodus 25:8

#3 Prayer for the Church

series: Love Incorruptible

title: Prayer for the Church

teacher: Jacob Bender

date: May 7, 2017

scriptures: Ephesians 1:15-23, Malachi 3

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#2 In Christ (part two)

series: Love Incorruptible

title: In Christ (part two)

date: April 30, 2017

teacher: Jacob Bender

scriptures: Ephesians 1:3-13, Acts 19, Acts 20:29

#1 In Christ

series: Love Incorruptible

title: In Christ (part one)

date: April 23, 2017

teacher: Jacob Bender

scriptures: Ephesians 1:1-4, Ephesians 6:21-24, Ephesians 3:20-21, Ephesians 4:1-3, Revelation 2:2-5

He is not here

series: a week to live

title: He is not here (Easter 2017)

date: April 16, 2017

teacher: Jacob Bender

scriptures: Mark 16:1-8, Mark 10:33-34, Isaiah 57:15

Jesus Curses the Fig Tree

series: A week to live

title: Jesus Curses the Fig Tree

date: April 9, 2017

teacher: Jacob Bender

scriptures: Mark 11:12-25, Luke 6:40, Luke 11:11-14, 2 Chronicles 7:14, Matthew 25:14-30, Ezekiel 17, Mark 11:27

Jesus Cleanses the Temple

series: a week to live

title: Jesus Cleanses the Temple

date: April 2, 2017

teacher: Jacob Bender

scriptures: Mark 11, Leviticus 14, Mark 13:1

#4 Loving our Neighbors

series: Neighbor(ing)

title: Loving Our Neighbors

teacher(s): Jacob & Dawn Bender

date: March 19, 2017

scriptures: Luke 10:30-37, Acts 2:42-47, Galatians 2:6, Galatians 2:9-10, James 1:27, 2 Corinthians 6:18, Isaiah 32:8

#3 Seeing Our Neighbor

series: Neighbor(ing)

title: Seeing Our Neighbor

teacher: Jacob Bender

date: March 5, 2017

scriptures: John 8:3-11, Genesis 2:9, Genesis 3:4-5, Genesis 3:17, Genesis 3:22-33, Psalm 106:23, Ezekiel 22:30, Revelation 22:1-4

#2 Who is my Neighbor?

series: Neighbor(ing)

title: Who is my neighbor?

date: February 26

teacher: Mark Bender

#1 Loving God

series: Neighboring

title: Loving God

teacher: Jacob Bender

date: February 19, 2017

scriptures: Luke 10:25-28, John 12:5-7, Matthew 26:10-13, John 15:12-15, 2 John 4:10, 1 John 4:19, Exodus 33, Romans 8:15

#6 Indifference

series: Thawing

title: indifference

teacher: Jacob Bender

date: February 12, 2017

scriptures: Revelation 3:14-20, Ezekiel 16:49, Matthew 25:45-46, Luke 16, Deuteronomy 27:19, Ephesians 6, 1 John 3:18

Jesus says to the church in Laodicea - "would that you be hot or cold... but because you are lukewarm, I will spit you out of my mouth!" -Revelation 3:15-16.

 Most of us growing up being taught: You should be one or the other… and we associate hot or cold as being GOOD or BAD… and the teaching is typically that being lukewarm means you are somewhere in the middle of good and bad... and with THAT framework we hear Jesus saying: you are lukewarm and because of that I will spit you out of my mouth! and That leaves people thinking that Jesus would rather a person flat out deny him… not serve him at all, than to serve him, we could say: “half heartedly” - but what does that even mean? 

#5 isolation

series: Thawing

title: isolation

date: February 5, 2017

teacher: Jacob Bender

scriptures: Proverbs 2:6, James 3:13-18, 2 Timothy 4:1-4, Judges 18, 

#4 Disappointment

series: Thawing

title: Disappointment

teacher: Jacob Bender

date: January 29, 2017

scriptures: Matthew 11:2-11, 2 Corinthians 4:18, Romans 5:5, Isaiah 61, Matthew 11

This message was given on our first fruit Sunday at Courage Church, a time when we plant a seed together for our church and the new year.